Pompano Beach News

Major roads from Hollywood to Lake Worth are getting new traffic signs, and motorists will be paying the price with months of shifting lanes and road closures. The Florida Department of Transportation is replacing 18 overhead signs on U.S. 1, U.S. 441, Dixie Highway, State Road 84, and Copans, Glades,...

During a community meeting Monday night to discuss Friday's deputy-involved shooting in Pompano Beach, Broward Sheriff Scott Israel announced that the agency will no longer investigate shootings involving their own employees. Instead, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement will investigate the...

A man and a deputy were taken to hospitals Monday after a routine traffic stop in Pompano Beach turned violent and a second Broward Sheriff's deputy fired his weapon, officials said. The incident began when the tag on a Chevrolet sedan alerted a deputy's license plate reader. The deputy stopped...

The Broward Sheriff's Office is investigating a fatal shooting involving deputies that happened Friday night when the agency responded to an apparent domestic disturbance report. The man has been identified as 55-year-old Gregory Frazier, authorities confirmed. Deputies arrived at the 300 block...

A Pompano Beach city commissioner may have violated election laws by personally profiting from his 2014 campaign funds, according to a preliminary report from the Broward Office of the Inspector General. After it is finalized later this month, the report on Commissioner Rex Hardin will be forwarded...

It took just 32 seconds for a burglar to break into a truck outside a Pompano Beach business and drive away in an early morning theft. Surveillance video released by the Broward Sheriff's Office shows images from cameras outside DolFab, Inc., a metals manufacturer, at 250 S. Dixie Hwy. in Pompano...

Bus fares will be free for the next month —if you happen to catch one of two electric buses being tested by Broward County Transit. The pair of zero-emission buses — which have wheelchair ramps, air conditioning and bicycle racks —will be randomly mixed in with other buses on nine routes during...

A Plantation youth soccer coach whose resume boasts a number of high school state championships remained jailed Saturday after he was charged with four counts of sexual battery on a victim older than 12 but younger than 16. Plantation police on Friday arrested Juan W. Ramos, 43, on the charges;...

A man bought a car stereo on a Pompano Beach street for $25 and when Shane Worthy saw him with it, he claimed it was his. As Worthy confronted the stereo's new owner, who tried to drive away, authorities say Worthy shot at the vehicle, causing it to crash. According to a Broward Sheriff's Office...

A 24-year-old man was identified Friday as the person who violently pushed a 72-year-old woman to the ground outside a Wendy's restaurant and snatched her gold necklace in July. Malcolm Turner, who was arrested Aug. 24 on charges of violating probation and resisting arrest, is now facing additional...

The Tri-Rail shuttle bus fleet is getting an upgrade. Thirty new "commuter connectors" are being introduced to the free system that shuttles passengers between train stations, airports and downtown areas in Broward, Palm Beach, and Miami-Dade counties. Starting on Sept. 5th, 10 of Tri-Rail's 18...

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Hit by a dart

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Dart that struck Lusthene Joseph, 58, as he was walking to work on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2016.

Dart that struck Lusthene Joseph, 58, as he was walking to work on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2016.

Lusthene Joseph was walking from his bus stop to his job at a Pompano Beach bakery when a dart was launched through the predawn darkness and struck his back. The feathered projectile pushed through Joseph's shirt and several inches into his torso. He believes it was catapulted from inside a passing...

A robber was seen by a surveillance camera as he violently pushed a 72-year-old woman to the ground outside a Wendy's restaurant and snatched her gold necklace. The Broward Sheriff's Office on Monday released surveillance video of the July 24 strong armed robbery outside the restaurant on 2500...

Broward County News

About 20 crewmen aboard the cargo ship Explorer had just gathered in the mess for a lunch of rice and fish when three seventh graders from a Davie middle school walked in bearing gifts. "Merry Christmas," the students from Parkway Christian School said as they passed out colorfully-wrapped packages...

A Broward County school administrator could lose his job after an investigation concluded he misused his position to carry on an extramarital affair. The investigation centered around Israel Canales, 54, a manager of administrative support for the district, where he has overseen the operations...